Sabi ni Formichella, “I am not Filipina. I am a white American blogger and small business owner in New York City. So you can imagine my surprise when a two-year-old blog post of mine suddenly made it to the floor of the Philippine Senate last month.

"According to the Filipino reporters who alerted me to this, Sen. Vicente ‘Tito’ Sotto III lifted entire passages from a post I wrote for Feminists For Choice and twisted them into an anti-choice argument against an important reproductive rights bill in the country.”